Laura Owens: The Materiality of Abstraction

Laura Owens is a Los Angeles-based painter with a radically innovative approach to painting. Describing herself as an abstract painter who uses figuration as a formal device, Owens has consistently been questioning and pushing the boundaries of painting with a refreshing irreverence. Her works explores all the expressive qualities of paintings with method and passion. Any paint, whether artist paint, house paint or studio made, becomes one more “tool in the tool box” to achieve the remarkably broad and bold palette of color in her work as well as the differences in gloss, texture, and body that are the most essential attributes of her works. While she accepts that some aging must take place, Owens considers that changes altering the color balance or affecting the contrasts in texture and gloss would denature her work and strip it of it meaning. Learn more about the Art in L.A. project: http://bit.ly/1hTYVWj